World on a String
The world is getting smaller in many ways, including for fact finders looking to get information about companies. Sometimes, the company across the street will file more information about itself halfway around the world than it will in its own…
Is There a Spin Doctor in the House?
This story on the Huffington Post sneeringly treats a new offering in the financial world: negative publicity insurance. The policy will be offered by a division of AIG, and will give companies in crisis access to PR damage-control specialists…
Apple’s Directors in Focus
Now that Steve Jobs is gone, attention turns to Apple’s Board of Directors (1), a group that’s been criticized in the past for being too deferential to Jobs, as made clear in this Wall Street Journal Story. Steve Jobs was a business…
Shock! Rogue Trader was Polite and Well Educated
Police have arrested another suspected rogue trader at a big investment bank, a man named Kweku Adoboli who is alleged to have lost $2 billion for UBS in unauthorized deals. A story about Adoboli in the Wall Street Journal describes him…
Can You Hear Me Now? You’re Fired.
Getting fired is never pleasant, and it’s even worse when it comes as a complete surprise. Getting fired as a surprise while you’re driving your car must be really awful. That’s how Yahoo! Inc. reportedly fired its CEO Carol…
A Fact-Finding Test for Lawyers
Law schools have known for years that they turn out lawyers without training on how to gather facts. What’s changed recently is that law schools are starting to think this isn’t such a good idea. My colleague Peter Tillers, with…
Talk Isn’t Cheap Even When Offline
A quick reflection on the executive at Allstate, who according to the Wall Street Journal lost his job in part because of profanity-laced comments about a superior to colleagues in a bar. How did the Journal get the story? Not by crawling around…
Trial Ethics: A Template Can Save Your Life
This blog takes no position on the merits of a motion filed to disqualify Kasowitz from representing plaintiffs in a lawsuit against SAC Capital Advisors and others.
We haven’t even read the motion, but are relying solely on a report from…
Flashback: Can you get me someone’s phone records? Hell no!
Following is an entry from our firm's website originally published in September 2009 and, we think, timely.
Plenty of people - even sophisticated lawyers - sometimes ask us in the course of an investigation: “Can you get me his phone or…
Google and Human Memory
We’ve written before here and here about the limitations of Google. So much of what we think we can find on Google is not there because it was never on the internet, or can disappear from Google’s results from one hour to the next.…
